Gurdjieff Being Language for a common understanding

And then you will understand
why I—-well knowing and developing
a greater and greater sense of
objective understanding for all
of you brother and sister internet
participant readers and writers
hopefully with a similarly developing
appetite and spirit—-in the event of
your being accustomed to reading
books written exclusively by the
"intelligentsia" who after a certain
transformation of their psyche, very
artistically succeed during the period
of their responsible existence in
connection with all the honest, that
is, "naive" and "suggestible," fellow
countrymen and countrywomen they
encounter, with the result that
they become the owners of
"foundations" in charge of
large quantities of what are
called "money" and "money-changing-
slaves" also known as "bureaucrats,"
"plutocrats," and every other kind of
"crat"—-and discovering afterward what
is in the progressive style of
Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson,
words which are not written in the
usual "everyday" and "easy-to-read"
style characteristic of the land of
confusion, so-called "political
correctness" and "letter of the law,"
that you should not be compelled to
read anything written in Beelzebub's
Tales to His Grandson in what is
called "being language" and at any
cost, but it also must be remembered
that to regard anything written there
for its appearance alone is not-to-
be-joked-with.

"A universal language
is possible," said Gurdjieff,
"only people will never invent
it."

"Why not?" asked one of us.

"First because it was invented
a long time ago," answered Gurdjieff,
"and second because to understand this
language and to express ideas in it
depends not only upon the knowledge
of this language, but also on being."
--ch 5
--In Search of the Miraculous

"As regards feeling and body--
these parts are not in the
least interested in putting
self-remembering into practice.
And yet the main thing is to
change not in the mind, but
in the parts that are not
interested. The mind can
change quite easily.
Attainment is not
reached through
the mind; if it
is reached
through the
mind it is of
no use at all."
Gurdjieff
p221-227, views

. . . which is to say
that reading through the
material in Beelzebub's Tales
is to put self-remembering into
practice which "feeling" and
"body" are not in the least
interested, and then also
to realize that since the
"feeling" and "body" are
not interested is the reason
for speaking in the kind of
allegorical language we see
in the Tales.

After some time had passed,
Beelzebub, shaking his head
in a certain manner, turned
again to Hassein and said:

"I am just thinking that it
would be very reasonable on
my part if to this question
of yours—why our Endlessness
so often rejoices this holy
planet with His appearance—I
should answer in such a way
that I could also explain,
as I have several times
promised you, about the
fundamental cosmic laws
by which our present world
exists and is maintained,
because it is only by taking
these two questions together
that you will have sufficient
material for a full
representation and a
thorough understanding
of this Holy Planet Purgatory,
and at the same time learn more
about the three-brained beings
who interest you and who arise
on the planet Earth.

"I also now wish to
give you as many clear
and detailed explanations
as possible concerning this
holy planet, because sooner
or later you will have to
know about it, since every
responsible three-brained
being of our Universe,
irrespective of the
cause and the place
of his arising and
also of the form of
his exterior coating,
will ultimately have
to know everything
about this holy
planet.

"And he must know all
this in order to strive
to exist in the direction
corresponding to the sense
and aim of existence—a striving
which is the objective lot of
every three-brained being in
whom, for whatever reason,
the germ arises for the
coating of the 'highest
being-body.'"
--ch 39, Holy Planet

QUESTION: But haven't we
a great store of knowledge
already?

ANSWER: Yes, too many
kinds of knowledge. Our
present knowledge is based
on sense perceptions--like
children's. If we wish to
acquire the right kind of
knowledge, we must change
ourselves. With a development
of our being we can find a higher
state of consciousness. Change of
knowledge comes from change of
being. Knowledge in itself is
nothing. We must first have
self-knowledge, and with
the help of self-knowledge,
we shall learn how to change
ourselves--if we wish to
change ourselves.

QUESTION: And this change
must still come from without?

ANSWER: Yes. When we are ready
for new knowledge it will come
to us.

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